Andy Watson

Points In Time

By John Yao

Label: See Tao Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: Upside; Not Even Close; Triceratops Blues; First Step; The Other Way; Early Morning Walk; Song For Nolan; Finger Painting.

Not Even Close

August 12, 2025

Album: Points In Time
By John Yao
Label: See Tao Recordings
Released: 2025
Duration: 8:16

The Jazz Meurkengers

By Hendrik Meurkens

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2024
Track listing: A Slow One; Belgian Beer At Dawn; A Lullaby For Benny; Silver's Serenade; Meurks' Mood; Dreamsville; If I Were A Bell; A Tear For Toots; Smada.

Gin

By Jill McCarron

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: The Jody Grind; Monaco; Blue Bells; Yesterdays; My Shining Hour; Waltz for Debby; The Gin Suite (Gin/Bitters/Luck of the Draw); Jubilation; Geneva; The Whisperer; Quiet Now.

Hendrik Meurkens: The Jazz Meurkengers

by Edward Blanco
June 6, 2024

When one thinks of the jazz harmonica, two names immediately come to mind, the late great Toots Thielemans and the incomparable Hendrik Meurkens whose new project The Jazz Meurkengers fully captures Meurkens' desire to produce a new and exciting swinging jazz album. While Meurkens learned to play the vibraphone first at the age of sixteen growing ...

Hendrik Meurkens: The Jazz Meurkengers

by Pierre Giroux
May 16, 2024

Harmonica virtuoso Hendrik Meurkens brought together an outstanding group of musicians in The Jazz Meurkengers, which is a swinging tribute to the allure of hard-bop jazz. Supported by the resourceful and highly adaptable rhythm section of pianist Steve Ash, bassist Chris Berger and drummer Andy Watson, the band was augmented by the impeccable guitarist Ed Cherry ...

Jill McCarron Trio: Gin

by Jack Bowers
April 8, 2024

Gin, pianist Jill McCarron says of the title of her second recording as leader of the Jill McCarron Trio, refers to the card game of that name, and not to the alcoholic beverage. She balances the joy of winning with the luck of the draw in her entrancing three-part suite. While McCarron leads an admirable threesome ...

Tribute to Jim Hall

By Peter Bernstein

Label: Abeat Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: I'm Getting Sentimental Over You; Bon ami; Two's Blues; All Across a City; I Hear a Rhapsody; Waltz New; How Deep Is the Ocean; St. Thomas.

Jazz Motif

By Jill McCarron

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: All God��s Chillun Got Rhythm; Concorde; My Ideal; One for Amos; Short Story; Looking Out for Number 7; Ontem a Noite; Lined with a Groove; Chovendo Na Roseira; Cool Eyes; Jump for Joy; Glass Enclosure/Tempus Fugit.